Chapter 3 – Rosy Rosie

"Rose?"

Rose woke up with tears running down her face and the lingering feelings of the dream she had. She had gone through so much love but so much hurt as well while loving Scorpius. Damn git, why now? Just when I thought I had been cured of this. Needless to say, she was now in a foul mood.

"Mummy?" Lyra was standing in the doorway.

Rose quickly cleared the tears away. "Yes, sweetie I'll be making breakfast in a second."

Lyra walked up to Rose and looked at her with her big blue eyes, "Why you cry?"

"Oh, Mummy bumped her head, silly Mummy, but I'm fine now."

Lyra climbed up on the bed and straight into her lap. They stayed there cuddling for a while. Rose stroked Lyra's hair and she almost fell back asleep.

"I'm going to make breakfast what should we have?" Rose asked.

"Fench toast!" Lyra beamed her cute smile.

"Again! Well, toast it is!" Rose chuckled.

- At the Ministry of Magic -

"Let me guess, you told your parents about Scorpius' return and you dad almost blew up the house?" Esme predicted taking one look at Rose.

"Yep, and not only that but I had a stupid dream about him too, ugh," Rose fell into her desk chair. Esme's desk was luckily in front of hers.

"Was the dream good or bad?" Esme inquired while sorting parchment files.

"A bit of both. I just don't need the distraction now that we are on a big assignment."

"Totally understand that, though the problem won't go away," Esme stated thoughtfully.

"I quite like my bubble of denial, thank you very much." Rose pulled out a few files and taking notes on what topic she has to research.

"Fair enough," Esme said, "I guess we should get a bit of work done because we are the two the rest volunteered to go to the second experiment tomorrow."

"How nice of them," Rose stated sarcastically.

- Getting close to Midday -

"Well I'm starving, my brain can't function anymore, I need food," Esme said dramatically lying on her desk.

Rose chuckled but her stomach rumbled too.

"I'll go and get some food, what would you like?" Esme asked grabbing her purse.

"Just the usual sandwich and drink please." Rose smiled as Esme left.

She continued with her work until she heard the door open again. Without looking up Rose said, "Did you forget something?"

"Not that I know of, but please enlighten me." It was a man's voice. Rose quickly looked up to find Scorpius standing in front of her desk. Suddenly it occurred to her that her mouth was agape from shock. He smirked amused at her reaction and possible chuckled also. She closed her mouth and turned back to look at her work. Heat started to rise in her cheeks and she did her best to concentrate on the desktop.

Battling the urge to turn back to look at him she summoned her business tone. "Mister Malfoy, please excuse me I thought you were my college."

"Evidently, however, I can't excuse you as you have ignored my presence." He sat in Esme's chair. She could feel him watching her as she tried to read. Is it just me or is it a million degrees in here?

"I don't know what you are talking about in the slightest." As a result of the phenomena of...

"I never have known a person to be so rude as to deny me eye contact when I speak." Scorpius rested his elbows on her desk in her line of sight.

"I have very important work to be doing Mister Malfoy," Rose stated through almost gritted teeth. As a result of the...

"I am aware of that, which is also why I came to bring you some more files." Scorpius' voice tried to sound innocent though Rose knew he was smiling. Rose was going to get angry until a really well-thought insult came to mind. Rose couldn't hide her evil grin.

"Oh demoted to a delivery boy were you? Just leave them on the desk and let yourself out."

"If that's the way you'd like it." Scorpius moved his elbows and stood up. There was silence for a while so Rose looked up to see if he had left. She gasped, his face was so close. He had leaned in instead of leaving. His eyes were warm and he leaned in closer. Rose's brain froze. She couldn't think. He pecked a kiss on her nose and pulled away.

"See you next time Miss Weasley," Scorpius said as he walked out.

Rose fanned her face. She didn't need a mirror to know her face was as red as her hair.